George Howell Coffee – Building The Godfrey

George Howell Coffee At The Godfrey Hotel Boston Opens Today In Downtown Crossing

Pioneering coffee roasters George Howell Coffee today announce the official opening of the Downtown Crossing café located inside our ground-level lobby. Accessible to locals and hotel guests alike, George Howell Coffee at The Godfrey features a wide range of sophisticated yet inviting coffee experiences, such as an espresso bar, hand-poured single estate and micro lot coffee servings, and public cuppings. Later this summer, the café will offer coffee-tasting “flights,” specialty coffee-based creations, coffee brewer calibration clinic, group education coffee classes, and much more.

George Howell Coffee at The Godfrey is open daily 6:30 a.m. – 8 p.m., offering pairings for its estate coffees with a wide selection of pastries, toast tartines, and both breakfast and lunch sandwiches all made or sourced from local artisans or farms. In the evening, George Howell Coffee at The Godfrey offers fine French tarts and desserts from Praliné Artisanal Confections. The café is poised to offer expanded hours in the coming weeks for after-theater and dinner guests.

George Howell Coffee at The Godfrey offers a full retail section with a wide range of coffee brewing equipment on display and available for purchase, as well as an extensive range of retail coffee beans from farms across the world chosen for their quality and distinction. In this and all locations, George Howell Coffee is an expansion upon George Howell’s pioneering café collection The Coffee Connection in the early 1990’s with an esthetic environment combining contemporary art along with state of art coffee equipment producing exceptional coffee beverages.

For our guests looking to further immerse themselves in the thriving coffee culture in the heart of Boston, The Godfrey For Coffee Connoisseur package is available for booking beginning Monday, June 20. In addition to a two-night stay, the package includes a complimentary coffee flight for two, one-on-one coffee tasting course with a George Howell Coffee barista, and a takeaway of George Howell’s finest roast to take home.

Sneak Peek: George Howell Coffee

As you know, we opened in February, but we’re not done growing. In fact, we’re adding two additions to our lobby floor – a restaurant coming later this year and George Howell Coffee’s newest location late May.

That’s right, in just about a month you’ll be able to grab a cup of freshly ground coffee before heading out for a day of business meetings or sight seeing.

We have to leave a little mystery for opening day, but we thought we’d share some sneak peek, behind-the-scene shots of what’s to come in our George Howell Coffee location.

Keep checking back for more details as we get closer to our George Howell Coffee opening at the end of May.

A Sneak Peek of the George Howell Coffee Space

While we’ve shared a lot of photos of the guest rooms and lobby progress, there is one area we haven’t really shown you yet. Our George Howell Coffee space. Slated to open a bit after the hotel, George Howell Coffee will be to the right of the front lobby, opposite of our lobby bar and restaurant.

George Howell‘s career in coffee began in 1974, and we’re honored to be the third George Howell Coffee location in the Greater Boston area – other locations are Newtonville and the Boston Public Market.

Our shop location will be gorgeous and spacious, seating 53 people in total. The floor-to-ceiling windows will let in ample natural light and allow for panoramic views of Washington Street and Downtown Crossing. In addition to the coffee bar and seating, our shop will boast a retail space for speciality displays and demonstrations.

We can’t wait to unveil our George Howell Coffee location to you; we think you’ll love it as much as we do.